On her 15th birthday, Eva Schloss was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. As she explains in this 2013 autobiography, her survival depended on luck, determination, and the love and ...(Read More)

Ravaged by the world economic meltdown, increasingly dependent on imported oil and gas, and lacking a common foreign policy, Europe is in great danger, warns Walter Laqueur in this follow-up to his ...(Read More)

Is there a God? And if there is, has that God revealed anything of significance to us? Philosophers pondering these two questions have automatically assumed that the first must be answered before the ...(Read More)

History professor Frank Merli died in 2000 while working on a sequel to his popular 1970 book Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861–1865, leaving many manuscripts related to Great ...(Read More)

In 1972, this book launched one of the favorite grouchy heroes of modern children's literature. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is considered a classic for readers ...(Read More)

Cartoonist Kim Deitch places himself and his wife Pam—a passionate collector of Halloween cats from the 1920s and 30s—at the center of this graphic novel. But when Pam buys a mysterious old cat ...(Read More)

A pig named Johanna is riding in a train, but she doesn't have fellow characters or even a plot just yet. Johanna—and readers 4 to 8—can see the hand of her author-illustrator right at the side of ...(Read More)

The winner of three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and the National Book Award (and twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), E.L. Doctorow presents this collection of a ...(Read More)